Table 7

Field Enforcement Inspectors (CSHOs)

Division of Occupational Safety and Health Cal/OSHA
June 2017

Enforcement Region Filled CSHO Vacant CSHO CSHOs with

Positions Positions Listed Limited Field
Time
Region I 43 CSHOs 3 positions 8 CSHOs
SF Bay Area
[4 SSEs]
Region II 40 CSHOs 2 positions 4 CSHOs
Northern California
and Central Valley [4 SSEs]
Region III 44 CSHOs 4 positions 5 CSHOs
San Diego, Santa Ana,
San Bernardino [4 SSEs]
Region IV 36 CSHOs 8 positions 3 CSHOs
Los Angeles, Ventura
[3 SSEs]
Region V 8 CSHOs 3 positions 2 CSHOs
Mining & Tunneling
High Hazard Unit 17 CSHOs 4 positions 4 CSHOs
North and South
Labor Enforcement 9 CSHOs 1 position
Task Force
Process Safety 20 CSHOs 1 position 1 position
Management

TOTALS 217 nominal 26 vacant 27 CSHOs in

CSHOs positions training
209.5 actual field
CSHOs

Notes:

- Of the 217 filled CSHO positions, there are 15 Senior Safety Engineer (SSE) positions in
District Offices. The SSEs are to spend 50% of their time on District Office
administrative matters and 50% of their time conducting compliance inspections.
Therefore, the number of CSHOs available for field inspections is 209.5 CSHOs.
- The 26 vacant CSHO positions include 1 Senior Safety Engineer (SSE) position in the
Van Nuys District Offices. Because SSE positions can only be filled by internal
promotion, current Safety Engineers/compliance officers will be promoted and the
resulting 1 CSHO vacancy will need to be backfilled.
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 - DOSH has a vacancy rate for CSHO positions of 10.7% (26 vacancies in 243 positions).
In October 2016, there were a total of 245 filled and vacant CSHO positions. In June
2017, the total number of CSHO positions dropped to 243 positions. No explanation has
been given for the 2 eliminated CSHO positions.

- Since all the vacant positions have been fully funded since July 2015, the 26 vacancies in
May 2017 represent $325,000 in enforcement resources left on the table unused in the
month. Each unfilled CSHO position represents $150,00 annually in salary, benefits and
operating costs that are fully under the last and current state budgets. Since July 2015,
using an average of 34 vacancies a month, the unused Cal/OSHA enforcement resources
amount to $10,200,000 for the 24-month period.

- The California Employment Development Department (EDD) reported the Californian

civilian labor force in June 2017 as 19,156,000 workers. The 209.5 field-available filled
CSHO positions represents an inspector to worker ratio of 1 inspector to 91,437 workers.
Cal/OSHAs inspector to worker ratio of 1 inspector to 91,000 workers is less health
protective than Fed OSHAs ratio of 1 to 59,000; Washington States ratio of 1 to 25,000;
and Oregons ratio of 1 to 22,000. [These non-California ratios were cited in the
Department of Industrial Relations Budget Change Proposal of January 2015.]

- The 209.5 field-available CSHO positions are also below the number of California Fish
& Game Wardens (250) currently working in the field.

- The 209.5 field-available CSHO positions also include 27 CSHOs who are in training
(SET, TAU, T&D, Junior SE) and do not conduct independent inspections alone.

- The Fremont and Oakland District Offices have a CSHO serving as Acting District
Manager, so those offices effectively have one additional CSHO vacancy as the ADMs
do not conduct field inspections. The Oakland HHU District Office has a vacancy in the
District Manager position, which means that either a District Office CSHO or a Regional
staff member must serve as the office-bound Acting District Manager.

Sources: DOSH Organization Chart, June 8, 2017

EDD: http://www.labormarketinfo.edd.ca.gov

Additional Note:

As of April 2017, there are only 38 field CSHOs who receive bilingual pay, after passing a
proficiency exam in speaking languages other than English, as listed below. It is estimated that 5
million of the states 19 million worker labor force speak languages other than English, with
many monolingual in their native tongue.

Spanish-speaking field inspectors = 35 CSHOs

Cantonese-speaking field inspectors = 1 CSHO
Mandarin-speaking field inspectors = 1 CSHO
Vietnamese-speaking field inspector = 1 CSHO

Please see the April 2017 DOSH Bilingual Pay summary chart for the details.